Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fyoo-shun (like fusion)

Sentence: A frission of anxiety ran through Amanda as she read the magazine article on the H bombs. She did not know that is was a publication of the conspiracy theorists, and was soon in a complete state of fussion.

Etymology: fusion (a type of nuclear reaction) + fuss (worry) Frisson (a shudder of emotion) + fission (another type of nuclear reaction)

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: bay-bee-bug-a-boom

Sentence: Here it comes again, Zoe sighed at the core of her heart, the nucleus of her being. Things really seemed to be coming full circle. She was referring to all the babybugabooming in the news lately: North Korea, Iran. Now her boss was entertaining ideas for marketing it and here was this crazy guy in front of her. They...whoever they were... had to keep fear in the mix and at bay, she supposed. It was enough to make you inert. However, she thought, as her creative juices started flowing, little children the world over might enjoy a BabyBugaBoomerang!

Etymology: From slang for worry, BUGABOO + BABY BOOMER referring to those born between 1946 and 1964 and grew up during the Cold War. Emphasis on BOOM!

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: al ahrm ah gedd ohn

Sentence: alarmageddon, when vocalised, is usually met with armagedouttahere

Etymology: armageddon, alarm

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COMMENTS:

astute observation, readily apparent meaning, right on the definition, great originality. Exceptional verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:32:00

can always count on you to diffuse a scary concept - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:41:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: feer - oo - sheem - ah

Sentence: Nester constantly watched documentaries and read dozens of books about the cold war, World War II, nuclear capabilities and armaments. Although he had learned a great deal of history and could expound on scientific theories, knowing more about these topics also resulted in a great deal of fearoshima for Nester. He began to fret more and more that the end could be near.

Etymology: Fear + Hiroshima >>>Fear (be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event) Hiroshima (a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb)

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COMMENTS:

Powerful verbotomy - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:25:00

hehehe - galwaywegian, 2009-02-04: 10:48:00

excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:44:00

I agree...excellent! - kateinkorea, 2009-02-06: 02:21:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re ak tor re ak shun

Sentence: After the professor gave his lecture about nuclear proliferation and its destruction of our world, Enola had a reactoreaction. She worried that her nuclear family would not understand and would be in con-fusion if they knew about this disaster. Their fission vacations would change, no more gathering mushrooms and they would have a chain reaction to this news. She decided not to alarm them and to instead just Fermi la bouche!

Etymology: Reactor ((physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements) & Reaction (a process in which one or more substances are changed into others & an idea evoked by some experience)

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: nu clear harms race

Sentence: At the suggestion that a large number of nuclear weapons exist globally, the group, strangely didn’t admit the need for a nuclearharmsrace that many others did.

Etymology: This word is a combination of "nuclear arms race" and harm. Nuclear weapons are extremely harmful to the human race.

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COMMENTS:

Wonderful sentence! Well-crafted verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 22:46:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: parənoōkiə

Sentence: Boomer is one of the few people we know who still maintains a fallout shelter. His paranukia runs deep. He tells his skeptics ”When they blow you up, don’t come running to me”.

Etymology: paranoia (a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution) + nuke (a nuclear weapon)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nu kleer and prez ant dayn jer

Sentence: Adam Bomber was the top sales rep for Gone Fission...the Nuclear Product Company whose sales targets were not bang-on! Adam Nuisance is what the Military Buyer, Dr.Oppenheimer, called him, because he was after them every week selling add-ons. "Yes, for this week only we are offering a BOGO on Pogo (a Buy One, Get One nuclear armaments sale, where you could wipe out the island of Pogo. What Adam did not realize was that POGO was an acronym for Project On Government Oversight, an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government.) You could say that his sales pitch bombed, his profits would not mushroom, he was a nuclearandpresentdanger to his peers and his targets imploded. People were not surprised to read in the Society columns that Mr. Adam Bomber would soon be marrying Miss Eva D. Struction were spending their honeymoon in Nagasaki Japan!

Etymology: Nuclear ((weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy) & Clear And Present Danger (Play on a Title of a Tom Clancy Novel, made into a movie)

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COMMENTS:

Awesome! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:08:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: aaaaaaaaaaargh maaa geddd ohn

Sentence: his alst thoughts as he witnessed aaarghmageddon was " Knew there was something dodgy about Onobama"

Etymology: armageddon aaaaaaargh

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Newk-fee-er-bun-gel

Sentence: Tony would often lie awake at night stricken with the thought of nukefearbungle. All sorts of questions ran through his mind, what if someone accidentally pushed THE button resulting in the destruction of our planet. What would happen? Would there be any survivors? How long would they be able to survive? He finally decided to start building a nuclear bunker in his garden and stock it with enough food and supplies to last for at least three years.

Etymology: Nuke(short for nuclear) + Fear)a state of high anxiety) + Bungle(a istake, or be incompetent) = Nukefearbungle) See Nuclear bunker

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:42:00

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